Considering the discussion of being hardboiled and the design of the sleeves, I thought it was appropriate to tag this with the character tags for Hidari Shotaro and Philip from Kamen Rider W. Please let me know if this should be changed.
Why I do this to myself? I come to hurt over some Ame fanart, then I see one of her AND of A-chan, and we still haven't recovered from Aqua yet. Now it's only missing Mel from this year full of goodbyes.
She's not "quitting" in the sense she's graduating, she's ending all streaming activities but will still be apart of group projects, Her channel and socials will be shut down but announcements of her involvement will be announced on the main channels of Hololive EN.
The fact danbooru is trying to scam 20$ just to see the rest of this when it's literally only 3.50$ official is crazy
Gold hasn't been available for purchase for 2 years (topic #21157). But if you contribute enough to the site or win one of the Platinum raffles, you can see them without paying any money.
Gold hasn't been available for purchase for 2 years (topic #21157). But if you contribute enough to the site or win one of the Platinum raffles, you can see them without paying any money.
Wait really shouldn't they remove the gold thing then?
As sad as it is to see her go, since she stated she isn't leaving Cover and just the streaming side of thing it seems like she's moving into more of a Staff/Management role which, if it's true that Cover is going to open a US office, gives her a lot of advancement opportunities.
Edit: More details emerged, okay so if it's not a Staff/Management role and she's remaining an "Affiliate"... your guess is as good as mine.
So she's not gonna become a second A-Chan or whatever? I saw some other folks speculate about that too.
I think she'll continue working as sort of a guest appearance type of deal. Instead of before where when the vtuber graduates and the character is essentially "dead", it's likely she'll appear in official Hololive streams when schedule allows and maybe even some promotional work, like how Kiara described it with Morning Musume, where previous members come back for events as a surprise and such.
As much as I'd love to see her in future big events like the HoloFes's and other major concerts, that type of stuff would probably require more rehearsal/practice time than her new ventures would allow. But imagine if she does make an appearance at the next HoloFes, the ovation is gonna be incredible.
I'd like to think that would open the door to other former talents returning now and then.
Those old talents have moved on. If they wanted to do anything with COVER, and there's means for them to do so, I don't think Ame is going to be the jumping off point for it to happen
The only person expressly offered the option to return whenever she wants is Coco. Everyone else, Coco included, fully and completely ended their partnership with COVER. Ame is the only one to specifically be stated to remain as a COVER affiliate after ceasing activities. It's very safe to assume this is an Ame specific thing, and it won't be opening any doors for anyone who's already left the company.
Ame presumbly still has a contract with the company, or signed a new one with different terms, which obviously isn't the case for everyone prior. At the very least, they wouldn't be making appearances as their old Hololive personalities, since those contracts were severed. I don't think Ame's situation sets a precedent for them affiliating with COVER using their indie personalities, either, since she's still Ame, just only every now and then.
It also just opens a kind of messy can of worms. Graduated talents might be okay, but for Terminated talents would not be. Rushia still has plenty of fans, despite everything, and Mel's termination was more an unfortunate obligation and no one wanted to see her go. But there's no good way to justify bringing either of them back after explicitly Terminating them. Even for Graduated talents, making that kind of "exception" for any one of them opens the door for fans to start making requests/demands towards COVER/the talents for guest collabs, despite them all having long since moved on. Which, some people were already doing, but now they're given justification to do it even more. It would just encourage a lot of annoying, "But you let that person come back, why not this one?" even though it's not entirely up to COVER if those talents even want to do that.
This image is the only uncropped version I could find at this high of a resolution. The child posts are the highest resolution in horizontal and vertical cropping respectively.
